Carl Cox – Biography & Discography!

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A musical ambassador since he was in short trousers, a professional DJ since his early teens, a veteran of acid house and a champion of techno, Carl Cox emits a love of his work that is dangerously infectious. Check him when he’s behind the turntables and you can’t mistake his ecstatic visage, dripping with sweat as his head bobs up and down to the beat, his hands pumping the air whenever they’re not manipulating the turntables, his body swaying back and forth, frequently taking to the mike to share word on the latest underground tune he’s about to break. You name it, Carl’s been there and done it, but he’s never lost sight of the point of it: playing music, breaking tunes, spreading love, celebrating life.

In 1977, aged 15, Carl got a set of turntables and began working as a mobile DJ. Disco was the first music that captivated him but by the early 80s Cox had moved on to playing the same music as other young London DJs – rare groove, New York hip-hop and electro. He was perfectly placed to hear Chicago house music in its earliest forms, and when the epic ‘Acid Trax’ by Phuture (a.k.a. DJ Pierre) came out in early ‘87, “I was just ‘This is it.’ I would do my parties, and I’d play old rare groove and hip hop and soul and I would say ‘Right you’ve got to hear this Phuture track and people would just stop.  It’s funny because all the people who thought I had freaked out then are the people who are making the music now.”

As a founder of the sound, Carl rode the exploding British rave scene. He played the opening night of Danny Rampling’s legendary Shoom, co-promoted The Project with Paul Oakenfold, held a residency at the Zap Club in Brighton and at the Sunrise rave in 1988, hooked up a third turntable for his dawn-breaking set, got 15,000 kids back on their feet, and established a personal rep for three-deck wizardry.

The next step was to make music, and Carl’s 1991 debut single for Paul Oakenfold’s Perfecto label, ‘I Want You,’ gave him a top 30 hit and a Top of the Pops appearance. Two more singles also made the charts. But Carl was a reluctant pop star and as the masses moved onto fluffy house and trance, and the hardcore created jungle, Cox retreated into the club world that had nurtured him and instead embraced the underground sounds of techno. “Techno drives home somewhere,” he says of his core music. “It takes you to an element of surprise, not knowing where you’re going. It’s scary but wonderful at the same time.”

Carl’s classic releases include his 1995 mix CD, ‘F.A.C.T.’, which became a techno benchmark, selling over 250,000 copies and Carl’s 1996 EP ‘Two Paintings and a Drum’ again broke the British top 30. Alongside Carl’s ‘Ultimate Music Management’ company, which counted Josh Wink and Laurent Garnier among 27 clients, there was the Ultimatum record label, for which Cox recorded his third top 30 UK single ‘Sensual Sophis-ti-cat.’ In 2005, Carl’s third album, ‘The Second Sign’ caused a stir across Europe and reached number 3 in Spain’s national chart. Also gaining critical acclaim was speaker freaker ‘Dirty Bass’ a collaboration with Christian Smith and the funky ‘Give Me your love’, both released on 23rd Century Records, an outlet for his own burgeoning production output.

After forming Intec Records in 1999, the label went on to score a series of underground hits. Continuing his mission to conquer the entire world, seeing as Carl Cox Global radio show’s audience figures have reached 2 million per weekend, it’s little wonder Kiss 100 FM recently head-hunted Carl as a figurehead for their re-launch. Global’s world syndication has dominated airwaves in the prime-time slots of some of the world’s premier radio stations for nearly 3 years, running weekly across twenty countries, including America, Argentina, Turkey, Romania and Lebanon. Carl made a triumphant return to Kiss with a show entirely dedicated to new music. Guests include Sven Vath, Jaques Lu Cont and Josh Wink with label profiles on Buzzin’ Fly, International Deejay Gigolos and Soma amongst others.

To celebrate the 50th release on Intec, Carl was the recent cover star of respected dance institution DJ magazine. The occasion was also marked by two fresh Carl Cox productions on the label – ‘Spoon’ and ‘K’Pasa’, the former a tribute to Carl’s friend Mark Spoon (of Jam and Spoon fame)  who sadly passed away.  On the style of the tracks, Carl explains, “Spoon’ is a deep, melodic, track with strings and ‘K’Pasa’ is a more druggy, tribal track. They might not be the in-sound of today, but it’s what I like.”

This year marked the fifth anniversary of Carl Cox at Space, Ibiza. Never one to play it safe, the line up was reliably varied, with Carl fast cementing a status as an ambassador for all things eclectic, as he states: “It was as varied as the year before, with Josh Wink, Laurent Garnier, and Francois Kevorkian on one hand then people like LTJ Bukem, Fatboy Slim and Adam Freeland on the other, to name but a few. As with last year we proved you can have funk, soul, Latin, jazz, d&b – anything. It doesn’t just have to be house.” The 2006 season did not go un-noticed through the night winning ‘Best Ibiza night’ at the Ibiza DJ Awards.

2006 also marks the third year his ‘Carl Cox And Friends’ concept took to the Ahoy festival in Holland, which was, Carl says, “A celebration of electronic music, with 12,000 of his friends in tow.” Striving to take his showmanship to a higher level, Carl explains the full on- stage experience: “It isn’t like one DJ performing for twelve hours”, he says, “it’s a combination of great production, the best possible music and a real element of performance like a live drummer, vocalist or guitar player on stage. It’s as big as a traditional rock concert, only led by a DJ.”

Carl’s dedication to giving the fans something more than a man and two turntables is clearly one reason he was given top billing at the massive Coachella festival in California, alongside Madonna, Massive Attack and Franz Ferdinand. Most recently in August 2006 Carl in returned to his native London as the host and official patron of the SW4 festival, where  20,000 happy ravers lost it to Carl’s headline set.

SINGLES:

Lets Do It (12”)  – Carl Cox – Not On Label 1989  I Want You (Forever) – Carl Cox – Perfecto 1991   Two Paintings And A Drum (CD5”) – Carl Cox -
Worldwide Ultimatum Records 1995 COVER ON   Sensual Sophis-ti-cat (12”) – Carl Cox -
Worldwide Ultimatum Records 1996  Tribal Jedi (The Remixes) (12”) – Carl Cox
Worldwide Ultimatum Records 1996 COVER  Phuture 2000 (12”) – Carl Cox – Edel Records (Germany) 1998 COVER:   The Latin Theme (CD5”) – Carl Cox -
Worldwide Ultimatum Records 1998  Dr. Funk (12”)  – Carl Cox – Edel Records (Germany) 1999  The Latin Theme (12”)  – Carl Cox -
Worldwide Ultimatum Records 1999 COVER:   The Latin Theme (Remixes) (12”) – Carl Cox -
Worldwide Ultimatum Records 2000 COVER:   Club Traxx Vol. 1 (12”)  – Carl Cox – Trust The DJ 2002 COVER:    Space Calling (12”)  – Carl Cox – 23rd Century 2003 COVER

Dirty Bass (12”) – Carl Cox & Christian Smith – 23rd Century 2003
COVER: Club Traxx Volume 2 (12”)  – Carl Cox – 23rd Century 2004

REMIXES:

Behind The Eye Vol. 3 (CD) 1993 Vernon’s Wonderland – Vernon (Carl Cox’s Full Mix) Eye Q America It’s Our Future (Remixes) (12”)  It’s Our Future – AweX (Carl Cox Remix) Plastic City UK   This Is Fascism (2×12”)  This Is Fascism – Consolidated (Burning Gold Remix) MC Projects   Shades Of Paranoimia (12”) 1991 Shades Of Paranoimia – Art of Noise (The Carl Cox Mix) China Records Eternal The Remixes (12”) 1992 Eternal (Carl Cox Remix) Underground Level Recordings Gotta Work (12”) 1992 Gotta Work – Robert Owens (Carl’s Renaissance Mix) Freetown Inc   Jepron (Remixes) (12”) 1992 Jepron – DJ Phantasy (DJ Carl Cox Remix) Liquid Wax Recordings   Perfect Motion (12”) 1992 Perfect Motion – Sunscreem (Rhythm’s A Drug) Sony Soho Square
Let Me See Ya Move ‘93 Mixes (12”) 1993 Let Me See Ya Move – Visa (Carl Cox Militant March Mix) MMR Productions   Made You Dance (12”) 1993 Made You Dance – Smooth But Hazzardous (Carl Cox Remix) Sound Entity Records Astral Dreams (Remixes) (12”) 1994 Astral Dreams – Laurent Garnier (Carl’s Mmr Mix) F-Communications   Break The Law (12”) 1994 Break The Law – Trevor Rockcliffe Pres. Glow
(Carl’s Reconstructed Mix) MMR Productions   Carl Cox – Nonstopmix 1994 (CD) 1994 Do You Wanna Party – DJ Scott (Carl Cox Remix) Liquid Rec.   Hope Remix E.P. (12”) 1994 Hope – Quench (Carl Cox’s MMR Mix) Infectious Records
Jingo (12”) 1994 Jingo  – FKW (Carl Cox Mix) PWL International Raw (12”) 1994 Raw – O.T.T. (Lenny Dee) (Carl Cox Mix) Industrial Strength       Raz / Pillow Lava (12”) 1994 Raz  – Aurora Borealis (Carl’s MMR Mix) F-Communications
Self Destruction (12”) 1994 Self Destruction – Conquer (Carl Cox & Lenny Dee)
(Lenny is in USA & Carl’s MMR in UK Remix) + (Carl’s Kinetic Mix) MMR Productions   The Industrial Strength U.K. Sampler (2×12”) 1994 Blood Of An English Muffin – Carl Cox & Lenny Dee (Carl Cox Remix) MMR Productions The Meltdown (12”) 1994 The Meltdown – Lunatic Asylum (Carl Cox/John Selway Mix) MMR Productions   Angel (Ladadi O-heyo) (12”) 1995 Angel (Ladadi O-heyo) Jam & Spoon (Carl Cox Remix) Epic   Begging You (12”) 1995 Begging You – The Stone Roses (Cox’s Ultimatum Mix) Geffen Records   Eternal Traxx Vol. 2 – Various (2xCD) 1995 Shallow Grave – Steve Mason (Carl Cox’s Remix) ZYX Music   Hands On Yello  – (2×12”) 1995 L?Hotel – Yello (Carl Cox’s Hands on Yello Mix) Urban   High Pressure – Stomach Substance (12”) 1995 High Pressure – Dr. Fernando (Carl Cox/John Selway Mix) MMR Productions   I Wanna Be A Hippy (12”) 1995 Get Stoned  – Technohead (Carl Cox Mix) Mokum Records    Rampant Prankster (12”) 1995 Rampant Prankster – Slab (Carl Cox’s Jumper Mix) Hydrogen Dukebox   Hangar 84 (12”) 1996
Hangar 84 – System 7 (Carl Cox’s Worldwide Ultimatum Mix) Butterfly Records   Loose Caboose (Remixes) (12”) 1996 Loose Caboose – Electroliners (Carl Cox Remix) XL Recordings   Shaded Elementz – The Advent (4×12”) 1996 Mad Dog (Carl Cox Remix) Internal Vicious Circles (12”) 1996 Vicious Circles – Poltergeist (Carl Cox’s MMR Mix) Manifesto   Prologue (12”) 1997 Prologue – Tenth Chapter (The Carl Cox & Paul Van Dyk Mix) Jackpot The Sound Of Ultimate B.A.S.E. (12”) 1998 The Sounds Of Ultimate Base – Stone Circle (Carl Cox’s Original Mix) Worldwide Ultimatum Trax   That Zipper Track (Remixes) (12”) 1999 Needle Damage – DJ Dan Presents (Carl Cox Remix) Worldwide Ultimatum Records   Positive Education (12”) 2001 Positive Education – Slam (Carl Cox Remix) VC Recordings Visions Of You Part 1 (12”) 2001 Visions Of You Part 1 – Trevor Rockcliffe & Blake Baxter
(Carl Cox Remix) Intec Records Sunshine (Remixes) (12”) 2003 Sunshine – Tomaz & Filterheadz (Carl Cox Remix) Intec Records  You Rude (Get Fucked) (12”) 2003 You Rude (Get Fucked) – Bad Cabbage
(Carl Cox’s Not So Rude Mix) Mutant Disc   Don’t Deny It (12”) 2004 Don’t Deny It – Eric Powell (Carl Cox Mix) 23rd Century   Down Under – Johan Cyber (12”) 2004 Natural Funk (Carl Cox Mix) 23rd Century Just Kick! (12”) 2004 Just Kick! – Cohen vs Deluxe (Carl Cox Mix) Intec Records Pure Intec – Various (2xCD) 2004 Sunshine – Tomaz vs Filterheadz (Carl Cox Remix) Intec Records    Ultimate Sampler E.P. – Various (12”) 1993 War Path – Conquer (produced by Carl Cox) MMR Productions   Ultimatum No.1: Expand Your Mind Or Lose It Completely  – Various (2×12”) 1995 Education – Pox & Cowell (produced by Carl Cox & Eric Powell) Worldwide Ultimatum Records    Cappella Deconstructed – Capella (Carl Cox Vs Cappella) (CD5”) 1994 The Carl Cox Mix Internal Dance   Burning Phibes / Hi Hat Escalation – Infrequent Oscillation (12”) 1995 Burning Phibes (Carl Cox Mix) MMR Productions    Hardcore DJ’s…Take Control (12”) 1992 Feel Reel – Carl Cox Perfecto
Mayday – The Raving Society (We Are Different) – Various (2×12”) 1994 Motorway – Carl Cox Low Spirit Recordings   Universe – The Tribal Gathering 94 – Various (3×12”) 1994 Anthemia – Carl Cox Frankfurt Beat Productions   Carl Cox Presents Ultimatum No 1  – Various (CD) 1995 Song For Rachel – Carl Cox Worldwide Ultimatum Records   Classic To The Core Volume One  – Various (3×12”) 1995 Let’s Do It – Carl Cox Bass Section Recordings  The Science Behind The Circle – Various (3×12”) 1996 Acid Charge – Carl Cox Full Circle   Carl Cox – F.A.C.T. 2  – Various (3×12”) 1997 Siberian Snowstorm – Carl Cox (Dave Angel Mix) Worldwide Ultimatum Records

ALBUMS:

At The End Of The Cliche (Album)  – Carl Cox -
Worldwide Ultimatum Records 1996 COVER:

Phuture 2000 (Album)  – Carl Cox – Worldwide Ultimatum Records 1999 COVER

Second Sign (Album) – Carl Cox -
23rd Century Records 2005
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